RE: FW: [agi] WHAT PORTION OF CORTICAL PROCESSES ARE BOUND BY "THE BINDING PROBLEM"?Ed:it is precisely because the human brains can do such massive searches (averaging roughly 3 to 300 trillion/second in the cortex alone) that lets us so often come up with the appropriate memory or reason at the appropriate time.
Do you think the brain works by massive search in dealing with problems? Chess - a top master may consider consciously v. roughly 150 moves in a minute. Do you think his unconscious brain is considering a lot more? How many, roughly in what time? "Name 10 famous Frenchmen". How many Frenchmen roughly do you think your brain is checking out and how fast as you deal with that? Do you dispute Hawkins' "one hundred step rule"? He argues that the brain can recognize a face in 1/2 sec. - which can involve information traversing a chain of at most 100 neurons in that time. And "the largest conceivable parallel computer can't do anything useful in one hundred steps, no matter how large or how fast." [See "On Intelligence" pp 66-7] This rule would presumably severely limit the number of associations that can be made with any idea in a given time, or no? ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=106510220-47b225 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
